Big Shoulders: Notes on a psych sheet

Tomorrow’s Big Shoulders 5K will have a legitimate claim as the most competitive Masters open-water race in the U.S. outside of the Waikiki Roughwater, and maybe some years of the La Jolla Roughwater. For the first time, there will be an “elite” wave of the top 50 swimmers, according to seed time. Here they are:

first

last

sex

age

Mike

Alexandrov

M

25

Vincent

Allegra

M

32

Tim

Anderson

M

39

Amanda

Moguel

F

34

Jim

Barber

M

50

Timothy

Carlson

M

30

Kelly

Childers

M

49

Ron

Chlasta

M

52

Chris

Clarke

M

41

Kevin

Coates

M

21

William

Cordero

M

43

Adam

Dawkins

M

35

Todd

Dawkins

M

36

Chris

DeJong

M

26

David

Doherty

M

36

Aaron

Gabriel

M

44

Steven

Gregg

M

54

Jeffrey

Halbert

M

36

Emily

Hanson

F

22

Steve

Hartsock

M

36

Sam

Haywood

M

25

William

Huibregtse

M

45

Rob

Iglinski

M

34

Ethan

Kahn

M

47

Josh

Kercheval

M

29

Jeffrey

Maydak

M

37

Dave

McAnally

M

31

Tom

McCabe

M

52

David

McClellan

M

42

Lauren

Mcquaid

F

36

Evan

Morrison

M

30

Shaun

Morrow

M

42

Andrew

Mueller

M

20

Mark

O’Malley

M

34

Craig

Oppel

M

43

Kelly

Perry

F

31

Benjamin

Price

M

32

Dave

Pushka

M

46

Victoria

Rian

F

43

Erica

Rose

F

28

Megan

Ryther

F

31

Susie

Shuck

F

44

David

Sims

M

47

Mark

Stori

M

44

Polly

Surhoff

F

46

Alex

Tyler

M

21

Ross

Vimr

M

24

George

Wendt

M

62

Ashley

Whitney

F

31

With just a cursory glance, I see three Olympians (Alexandrov, Gregg, Sims), one current American record holder (Alexandrov), one recent American record holder (DeJong), three current or recent U.S. open-water national team members (Hanson, Rose, Ryther), two open-water “Triple Crown” members, and the #1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, & 11 finishers at this year’s USMS 10K Championship.

It will be an interesting first couple hundred meters, to say the least!